Zdenka

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn’t the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother.”
― Doris Lessing

“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
― Alain de Botton

“Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.”
― Alain de Botton